Thursday, November 19, 2009

Harry Reid and the Pages of Gold

CNN reports the cost of the bill, over 10 years, is calculated at $849,000,000,000

That's $409,353,905.50 per page.

J. K. Rowling's seven-book Harry Potter series sold 325-million copies in the first 10 years. At 4,195 pages, at the hardcover price of $24.95, that works out to $8,108,750,000 in sales (and the amount is less, if any of those sales were cheaper paperback versions).

Amount per page sold in a Harry Potter book? $1,932,955.90

That means a single page of the Senate bill is worth 211.7 times more than a page from a Harry Potter book.